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Historical Event on 9/8/1951
The office of Controller of Military Accounts (Pensions) was re-designated as CDA(P), Allahabad.
| Other Historical Dates and Events |
| 11/2/1956 | Express Train plunged down the Marudaiyar river embarkment killng 143 persons. |
| 4/1/1855 | Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's first Bengali primer 'Varnaparichay' was published. |
| 7/21/1975 | Hindi Post Guards was established by Government. |
| 6/15/1991 | About 50% of the 180.3 million electorate cast their votes in the final phase of Lok Sabha elections. |
| 7/7/1896 | The premier show of the 'Marvel of the Century', first cinema show India, arranged by the Representatives of French Lumiere brothers- Louis and August Lumiere, was held at Watson Hotel in Bombay. The regular shows, however, started from July 14, 1896 at the Novelty Theatre. This show advertisment appeared in the 'Times of India', carrying details of a film show to be held for the first time on Indian soil. |
| 1/14/1926 | Mahashweta Devi was born at Jinda Bahar Lane, Dhaka. |
| 12/14/1985 | Rajiv Gandhi joins the leaders of Greece, Sweden, Tanzania, Mexico and Argentina in a tele-conference as part of the UN ceremony at which they are honoured with the 'Beyond War' award. |
| 6/16/1990 | GOI announces higher procurement/minimum support prices for all major kharif crops. |
| 1/16/1995 | India and USA form new trade framework called Indo-US Commercial Alliance and signs contracts worth $ 1.4 b. |
| 11/9/1877 | Muhammad Iqbal, Urdu poet, was born in Sialkot (now in Pakistan). |
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